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Earl’s Diner, a typical American restaurant in Plainview, Indiana is the main setting of Edward Kelsey Moore’s debut novel. Typical? Not quite. It is the first Afro-American owned diner  in the strained, but optimistic spirit of the 1960’s. The book spans 40 years, in which the friends Odette, Clarice and Babara-Jean meet once a week in the restaurant to talk: about being Afro-American college students, about their marriages, infidelity and illness. The owner Earl is always by their side with advice and pecan pie – even after his death, he “stands by” them in spirit. In “The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can Eat”, Edward Kelsey Moore has produced a great debut novel, which traces forty years of recent history in a witty and touching story of three women and their lives.